thoughtphazer
Tommy - Lead Singer/Guitar
Well it all started when I was young listening to my dad's old classic rock albums. I really liked his psychedelic records: Hendrix, Doors, Cream, CCR, Pink Floyd, etc… my parents realized my passion for music and bought me my first acoustic guitar when I was 8, Of course being a dumb rambunctious child, I promptly broke it in half within the year mimicking The Who concert I saw on T.V.
It would 6 years until I received my next guitar. This time it was electric. Every single day for two years I would come home and play the guitar, I loved music so it was no problem for me to teach myself to play. Within this time period I just began to find myself in a unique music taste. I started to take an interest in pre punk music; bands like MC5, and The Stooges. I found a new passion in the raw power of this artsy yet brutish music. It came natural to my playing. As time went on I found a love for ELO, Boston, and more power rock, the mixture of melodic music and raw power yet again intrigued me. Punk music of the 70's and 80's & 90's then became my passion; the simplicity of one note says it all… it fit my playing perfectly. I found the form I wanted to display, but not the exact sound. How do I combine all my favorite genres into one? How will I mix raw power, psychedelic, and melodic music into one? The answer would be in my music.
As for singing, I had been classically trained my whole life. I started in 3rd grade in Our Lady of Lords church boy's choir. At 10 years olds I started taking voice lessons eventually working with college level teacher at age 16 with whom I still take lessons.
In spring of 2008 I started putting together Thought Phazer. I had been playing guitar for 3 years and been song writing all that time. I'd seen Chad Hellman playing drums in the school orchestra and I thought maybe he could play more then just classical music. I was more then right. I soon found out Chad's unique taste in progressive music would lead to the perfect sound to match my unusual guitar playing. I then sought out one of my best friends who, being the best actor in the whole school, I figured would pick up bass easy forming his signature punk sound. Lastly, the band found Blaine as a keyboardist, I actually don't know how, but they were right to do so. Blaine's classical training would blend magnificently with the alternative rock music Thought Phazer had been playing. Ever since that fateful summer I have been playing and writing in Thought Phazer and wouldn't want it any other way.
It would 6 years until I received my next guitar. This time it was electric. Every single day for two years I would come home and play the guitar, I loved music so it was no problem for me to teach myself to play. Within this time period I just began to find myself in a unique music taste. I started to take an interest in pre punk music; bands like MC5, and The Stooges. I found a new passion in the raw power of this artsy yet brutish music. It came natural to my playing. As time went on I found a love for ELO, Boston, and more power rock, the mixture of melodic music and raw power yet again intrigued me. Punk music of the 70's and 80's & 90's then became my passion; the simplicity of one note says it all… it fit my playing perfectly. I found the form I wanted to display, but not the exact sound. How do I combine all my favorite genres into one? How will I mix raw power, psychedelic, and melodic music into one? The answer would be in my music.
As for singing, I had been classically trained my whole life. I started in 3rd grade in Our Lady of Lords church boy's choir. At 10 years olds I started taking voice lessons eventually working with college level teacher at age 16 with whom I still take lessons.
In spring of 2008 I started putting together Thought Phazer. I had been playing guitar for 3 years and been song writing all that time. I'd seen Chad Hellman playing drums in the school orchestra and I thought maybe he could play more then just classical music. I was more then right. I soon found out Chad's unique taste in progressive music would lead to the perfect sound to match my unusual guitar playing. I then sought out one of my best friends who, being the best actor in the whole school, I figured would pick up bass easy forming his signature punk sound. Lastly, the band found Blaine as a keyboardist, I actually don't know how, but they were right to do so. Blaine's classical training would blend magnificently with the alternative rock music Thought Phazer had been playing. Ever since that fateful summer I have been playing and writing in Thought Phazer and wouldn't want it any other way.
